Yesterday and Today
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tvordljNot overly hot but sticky and muggy. Yesterday and today too it looks like.
Am going to see the movie Le Divorce with my best mate Carolyn a little later. We've not connected up all summer so that will be fun.
Yesterday i had a bunch of errands to run and at one point was at a spa downtown in Dartmouth to get some shampoo and i spied the open door of the William Ray house (aka Quaker House) across the street.
This is the oldest house in Dartmouth leftover from the days when a small number of Whalers were enticed to Nova Scotia for a new Whaling industry. This house was began in 1785 as a two up two down structure. It's been added on to in the back with two more up and down including a second very narrow staircase that leads up to a small room. They don't take people up there.
It cost 2 dollars and one of the two people there offered to walk me through the house on a tour. Great! I've always wanted to see the house! There are some old antiques and also some reproductions. I took a few pictures as well and they're altogether here.
There was a front room with a fireplace as well as a back kitchen, a parlour with a table sized piece of paper on it. It was an original marriage certificate and apparently the wording hasnt' much changed to today. There was a small lock box for documents and a baby's hooded cradle without the hood. There was another hooded cradle but it was repro. The covering on the bed in the children's room was woven as a reversable pattern. The navy blue side would have shown in Fall and Winter with the cream side up in the warmer season. The rooms all had wide plank floors and walls.
In the "office" or recepttion room there was a glass case of whale related stuff, Whale teeth with Scrimshaw carving on them, a piece of whale ivory carved into an elaborate pie crimper, some candles made from wax and oil taken from the carcass and two ear bones, the size of my fist each that they used to paint during the long hours out to sea. They also had a cover over a large jar that contained a whale eye!!!! It was about the size of a medium cantalope melon or large grapefruit!
Inside the walls they found 4 or 5 old worn out shoes. Apparently that was a custom to put your old shoe inside the wall for good luck as it was the most personal item you had that contained your body's impression.
Out in the backyard was a huge bell which they told me came from a fire station in the area that burned down in the late 1800's. Fire station.. burned down... eh? lol!
Am going to see the movie Le Divorce with my best mate Carolyn a little later. We've not connected up all summer so that will be fun.
Yesterday i had a bunch of errands to run and at one point was at a spa downtown in Dartmouth to get some shampoo and i spied the open door of the William Ray house (aka Quaker House) across the street.
This is the oldest house in Dartmouth leftover from the days when a small number of Whalers were enticed to Nova Scotia for a new Whaling industry. This house was began in 1785 as a two up two down structure. It's been added on to in the back with two more up and down including a second very narrow staircase that leads up to a small room. They don't take people up there.
It cost 2 dollars and one of the two people there offered to walk me through the house on a tour. Great! I've always wanted to see the house! There are some old antiques and also some reproductions. I took a few pictures as well and they're altogether here.
There was a front room with a fireplace as well as a back kitchen, a parlour with a table sized piece of paper on it. It was an original marriage certificate and apparently the wording hasnt' much changed to today. There was a small lock box for documents and a baby's hooded cradle without the hood. There was another hooded cradle but it was repro. The covering on the bed in the children's room was woven as a reversable pattern. The navy blue side would have shown in Fall and Winter with the cream side up in the warmer season. The rooms all had wide plank floors and walls.
In the "office" or recepttion room there was a glass case of whale related stuff, Whale teeth with Scrimshaw carving on them, a piece of whale ivory carved into an elaborate pie crimper, some candles made from wax and oil taken from the carcass and two ear bones, the size of my fist each that they used to paint during the long hours out to sea. They also had a cover over a large jar that contained a whale eye!!!! It was about the size of a medium cantalope melon or large grapefruit!
Inside the walls they found 4 or 5 old worn out shoes. Apparently that was a custom to put your old shoe inside the wall for good luck as it was the most personal item you had that contained your body's impression.
Out in the backyard was a huge bell which they told me came from a fire station in the area that burned down in the late 1800's. Fire station.. burned down... eh? lol!
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Date: 2003-08-23 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-08-23 11:15 am (UTC)I love going through old houses, stately homes, castles etc :)) I lived fairly close to Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ont. and enjoyed going through there too.